Gautier Capucon - Elgar / Walton

Pappano, Antonio;
London Symphony Orchestra;
Capuçon, Gautier

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The multi-award-winning musician has already recorded a new album since then, featuring the cello concertos by Edward Elgar and William Walton. Both concertos place high demands on their performers. The cello in Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor op. 85 reflects the composer's state of mind at a time when he was not only struggling with the First World War, but was also afflicted by financial hardship and illness. The instrument fluctuates highly emotionally between sadness and tenderness, the orchestra takes up his movement and continues it, supporting it rather than competing with it. As at the premiere of the work in 1919, the London Symphony Orchestra also plays here. It is conducted by its chief conductor Antonio Pappano

In comparison, the British maestro Sir Antonio Pappano describes William Walton's Cello Concerto: "It is obviously more virtuosic for the cello. It has cadenzas, big cadenzas, where the cello is left alone and can really show what it can do. A work made for the exceptional musician Gautier Capuçon!

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31-08-2024

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